Thursday, 31 December 2015

So 2015 seems to have been a busy one with a few bumps along the way. It's been different.

I started the year with the Bowland exhibition and the birds stonechats, lapwings and snipes. I will be carrying the thread on hoping to make more and with my gift membership to the RSPB for Christmas. I have had my slab roller motorised too so hopefully back on the slab built porcelain too.

I am loving the dog commissions I know I need practice so I am having a go at a few friends dogs in the new year too. It's all very exciting.

So more bird, dogs, animals and porcelain and maybe better health and less accidents (currently waiting for my new phone to be delivered after the last one got run over!) It's never ever boring is it!

Friday, 27 November 2015

These came about after a conversation with one of the other mill artists Eddie Davies when I was playing with smaller animals and made a little mole for fun. As the exhibition we were working towards is called 'A Winter's Tale' it fitted well that I had a go at making the EH Shepard characters illustrating Kenneth Grahames Wind in the Willows so these were born. The glasses are actual real lenses I swapped for a vase with one of Karens students and made with copper wire. The pipe is a long running prop that a lot of the other artists have too. It's a long story but it was in my studio!

Mole

Toad

Badger

Ratty

I had fun can you tell? It was a bit of light relief after filling a skip last weekend with stuff from my studio yes a skip all be it a mini one but really I didn't think I could do it but I did! and I now have my kiln in my studio too. It's very exciting....but back to the exhibition........

Monday, 16 November 2015

I am sorry I haven't been feeling brill lately and voice is coming and going as we speak!

I have been making work but not really getting it out there maybe it is just lack of confidence I just don't know but I need to pull myself together to get things moving again.

I have had my slab roller motorised and I am sat looking at it trying to get my mojo back for how I used to work before Arthur(itius) kicked in and then I am trying to create work with more character too in the animal sense but I am not sure as my confidence is at an all time low I think. Hey ho I will get it back soon when things stop going wrong *crosses fingers

So here's a few pieces I have been making these are at the Chapel Gallery in their 'Objects of Desire' exhibition on until 9th January 2016